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Plain Language:
A plain-language guide to monotropism, wonder and awe — what happens when Autistic and ADHD attention is given space to notice, and stay
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Posts from neurodivergent writers and the blogs the Library follows.
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Wyrd, Weird, and the Invention of Normal
Weird" comes from wyrd — Old English for fate and becoming. A look at the word's history, Weird Pride and the myth of normality.
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Spotlight on Selective Mutism with Libby Hill, Speech and Language Therapist with Small Talk Speech and Language Therapy
Libby Hill is a consultant speech and language therapist (SLT) with a fascination for autism, including PDA, selective mutism and developmental language disorder. She has been an SLT for 40 years and…
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Why Gang Culture Can Be Attractive to Autistic People
Gang involvement among Autistic people is rarely discussed in neurodivergent-affirming spaces, and when it is discussed at all, it tends to be framed through a criminological or risk-management lens…
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Flowing In The Afterglow
Autistic burnout, monotropism, meerkat mode, AuDHD, neurodivergent reflection, liminal states, executive dysfunction, flow state
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The Constellation of Intensities: Neuroqueering the Spiky Profile
Why even the "spiky profile" still measures us against a grid — and what a constellation of intensities offers instead.
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Why Difference Comes First
From cosmic background radiation to Deleuze's smooth space to Autistic regulation — why difference, not sameness, is where everything begins.
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Professional Gateway: The Ecology Of Experience (Audio Lecture)
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Spotlight on Neurodivergent Theatre with Autistic Polish-British Theatre-Maker and Linguist Maks Marzec
Do you find joy in patterns? Do you notice details, echoes or tiny changes other people miss? Have you spent years achieving, adapting and looking “fine” from the outside? Then this might have been…
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Stimpunks Solidarity and Otters
A reflection from Stimpunks Solidarity Sesh on otters, monotropism, and co-regulation, and what watching them together each week teaches us
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Little Fluffy Clouds: An Invitation To Play
Multisensory Play Ideas: Little Fluffy Clouds Sensory Session
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Monotropa Uniflora and Monotropism
Monotropa Uniflora & Monotropism: A Tribute to Dinah Murray
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Spotlight on Embedding Neurodiversity into the Curriculum in Helping Professions: The Wholeness Solution with Mamood Ahmad, Psychotherapist and Author
Mamood Ahmad is a tutor, speaker, and author of A New Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy. He founded the #TADF community, which works proactively with training organisations to support the…
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☀️ Neurodiversity Newsletter July Edition
Welcome to July’s Neurodiversity Newsletter July is Disability Pride Month. It exists not because people have to be proud of their disabilities (though there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that),…
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Spotlight on Semi-Speaking as a Communication Identity with Speech & Language Therapists Harriet Richardson (Hat) and Kim Mears
Hat/Harriet Richardson is a white, semi-speaking, multiply neurodivergent Speech Pathologist, Neurodevelopmental Practitioner and writer. She runs the social media account @hat.talks.uk. Kim Mears is…
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Neurodiversity Infinity Symbol: History, Time, and Collective Becoming
The neurodiversity infinity symbol has a story worth knowing. Rotate it and it becomes an hourglass holding time, community, and collective becoming.
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Empathy, Becoming, and Belonging: On what it really means to be met across difference
Helen Edgar – Autistic Realms / More Realms June 2026 “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” — Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person (1961) “Becoming is not…
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How Community Gave Me The Strength To Find Recovery
I did not choose addiction, I chose survival in the only ways available to me at the time, and that distinction matters in ways I am still finding language for. It is not a deflection of…
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Stimming, Glimmers & Solidarity: Celebrating Autistic Pride Together
What is Autistic Pride Day? Explore its history, stimming, and glimmers with NeuroHub Community, Stimpunks & Autistic Realms.
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My Monotropic Galaxy: A Constellation of My Autistic Self
Helen Edgar explores monotropism, awe, and Autistic identity through a personal constellation map — weaving quantum physics, Deleuze, and star stuff.
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Spotlight on Autism and Parent-Carer Blame with Alice Running, Neuroaffirming Autism Specialist & Author
Alice Running (she/her) is a neuroaffirming autism specialist providing advocacy and consultancy services. She holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Autism. As an autistic mother to neurodivergent…
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Spotlight on Autistic Pride with Marion McLaughlin, Managing Director of Aurora Autistic Consulting, and founder of Autistic Pride Aberdeen
Marion McLaughlin is the Managing Director of Aurora Autistic Consulting. They have a varied career background including stable hand, road safety officer, primary school teacher, and Autistic led…
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We Are Made of Relations: Quantum Physics and What It Means to Be Autistic
Exploring relational quantum mechanics, the Double Empathy Problem, ethodiversity and what it means to be Autistic in a world made of relations, not objects.
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Is CBT suitable for Autistic people?
This article is a combination of, and expansion on, posts originally published on my Facebook page. We’re often told that CBT isn’t suitable for Autistic people. Is this true? CBT stands for…